I'm Christina I've been a professional illustrator since 2005 and a specialist game artist/ art director since 2009. I've worked for Mojang (on Minecraft), Netflix Games, WB Games I've been unemployed for 8+ months. I'm tired of rejection letters. Please help me find a paying project #gamedev

Challenge time! If we get more than 25 submissions for Jimothy Jamothy I will get this amazing artwork from @meowza.bsky.social tattooed on my body. Join the jam now and help make this a reality! itch.io/jam/jimothy-... #jimothy @seattleindies.bsky.social

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

Flow Void@flowvoid.bsky.social · 2w ago

The gen AIs that most are familiar with were built using stolen creative work, but there are plenty of more niche gen AIs that do not use stolen work.

90 minutes left to get all these wonderful games (including mine) and provide some relief for game devs who've been laid off by big stupid corporations who don't understand the value of human workers! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

As Spirit Crossing is starting to reboot socials, in particular TikTok, I want to remind people that it is a genAI game and they really don't want you to know that.

🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • 9/18 🎂 Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️@camronjk.com · 3mo ago

So, hey, @spryfox.bsky.social's title, Spirit Crossing, sadly does in fact use GenAI. Dev's have confirmed as much in their Discord. There is a Claude file in the game files for the playtest that started a conversation about it, and sadly, that will be the end of it for me. I'm heartbroken...

steam AI disclosures are so funny. they clearly know they're in the wrong, but they still think they can find the magic combination of words so people will make an exception for them. guys you don't understand i HAD to use AI and the game only has a LITTLE slop and i'm just a little birthday boy

News time! 🚨 On August 9th our Steam version will transform to become BIG HOPS TOGETHER. - Play the full adventure ONLINE with 8 players - Pick up and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other players - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story and collection progress is shared

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Holy shit this is so vile. 🤢

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · last mo.

The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

Filled out a survey for UK authors and illustrators, about AI Licensing and Remuneration. My personal take on this was that there's no combination of money or terms, that would make me want to license my work to train Gen AI. At the end of the survey I wrote this mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"if you pay me maybe I'll use LESS AI" is a new desperate plea I haven't seen before

"Weird Al" Yankovic has always been a real one. Just learned that he very recently turned down "a nice pile of money" to shill for A.I. Damn right he did. @alyankovic.bsky.social www.syracuse.com/entertainmen...

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Canadians, this is a petition about AI datacenters that you should really sign. Be sure to also click on the link you'll receive in your email to confirm to make sure you are actually counted!

Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @ Tails of Summer!@drac.at · 2mo ago

Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one

Summerween sale in the stationery shop!🎃☀️ 25% off everything until the end of June. www.etsy.com/ca/shop/kuku...

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Even with numbers being... for lack of a better word, bad for me right now, I'm as determined as ever. I love streaming. I love my community. I will never give up. No matter how much my brain fights, I will continue to go live and brighten the days of those who stop by! 5 days a week, come on by!

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Freezing temp take: If people are dissuaded from buying your game because of the way you made it, the answer is not to hide how you made it, but to instead not make it that way.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 2mo ago

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

Switch Store Pages for Mythmatch are Live! Wishlist now for release in just two weeks! US: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... UK: www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

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Merge items to build a town and challenge the Greek Gods in Mythmatch.

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!)@oneofmoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏹🏹🏹 Mythmatch is Coming to Nintendo Switch!!! 🏹🏹🏹 Our narrative-rich, Greek myth, anti-capitalist merge game is coming Nintendo Switch on 7/7/2026! The perfect device for just one more day in the mortal realm or one more go in the minigames. 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Find your home

No reason to use AI. Using AI is basically shaming yourself, declaring yourself as unable to create art & write code, so you use a computer program that liars, thieves, and scammers use, a program that steals art & code from others to help you. How do you even look at yourself in the mirror?

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏@mrhands31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

I haven't had work in months. I'm a good art director, expert pixel artist, and although I prefer to do art, I can also make entire games from start to finish if necessary, as pictured. Not the greatest coder, but I get the job done (like Chapell Roan I guess). please share

@amnesty.org very based: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."

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Spirit Swap, our debut puzzle+dating game centered on QTPOC joy has no genAI whatsoever🧠 PC/Mac/Steamdeck: store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/... And now on switch/2: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Trailer below! bsky.app/profile/soft...

Spirit Swap ON SWITCH/2 NOW✨@softnotweak.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 to is OUT NOW! GO GO GO! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/... ✨

I don’t want “a little” AI use in any game or art or writing, even if it makes it “easier” for you. It sours the whole thing. Just like I don’t want a little shit in my cake mix even if I don’t taste it in the final cake, or for the baker to not wash their hands because it’s faster.

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.